mikeflynn

Looks like the post was later updated with details about this was a nothing burger.

I'll edit the title.

Yes. Absolutely. Just not the big corps. The big corps had tools to mitigate, people to cut to throw red meat to the market, and products to hype about how efficient they are now, etc.

I don't know if Big Tech will re-staff. I suspect they might to a degree, but smaller software-focused firms absolutely will. If they are surviving, they are working with a much smaller staff and would jump at the chance to add more hands.

Section 174 has definitely been talked about a lot over the last few years, (even here on HN from time to time) but it's tax code details like this that never seem to make it above hype-fueled misrepresentations like "AI Is Taking All Software Jobs!"

Yes, it's a huge problem for small startups. Many of them went from not making revenue in the eyes of the IRS to being profitable and having massive tax bills. FAANG has the ability to move things around to their EU offices, but they also have the ability to spin it and do a layoff to help with their tax burden but also cover up issues like over-spending on projects like a shift to VR that didn't go anywhere, for example.

Ada 95 was the first language taught in my college CompSci program back in 1999 (this might have even been my textbook).

Everyone would complain about Ada because no one had heard of it before, but looking back it was the right call. A great language to learn the basics on and not get in to trouble.

They’ve since moved to Java and now probably something else.

The Go example is a lot of comments right off the bat. To be clear, it’s good to comment your code, but maybe not when you are trying to look l33t on the cheap.

YouTube has endpoints in their Data API to list and download captions: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions

It started there initially because a bunch of hackers wanted to hang out together and the cheapest way to do that was to all fly in the Vegas in August. It’s tradition but also still somewhat true for the reasons you articulate.

I so wish I could do this, but once you have kids, and especially once they are in school, this becomes a non-starter.

I live close to Pickwick’s / Poor Richard’s Pub and my friend would always want to meet there for a beer. It’s a fine place, but with the amount of options in LA I figured he was an Office fan but after a few visits I asked him and he said “I’ve never really watched that show. Why do you ask?”

It made me laugh. I guess I’ve seen too many super The Office fans to just assume he liked this odd little pub on Ventura.

This website needs a Little Luca Ultimate club sandwich almost as much as I do.

They just opened an Amazon Go store in LA (Woodland Hills) at the beginning of the year. From my unscientific sample of personal visits it seems to be getting decent traffic, is well run, and is a much nicer place to quickly grab something on a walk over a gas station or a market that only takes cash.

For whatever reason there's also a Whole Foods and an Amazon Fresh near by as well. Woodland Hills is well stocked with Amazon retail!

How does this compare to Metabase?

Redash seems to be dead or at least in hibernation. There hasn't been a release in over a year.

https://github.com/getredash/redash/issues/5891

I'm up in LA, but I'm strongly considering going up to SF (or down to SD) for a day or two to learn as I can't seem to find anything where I am.

I want to learn how to MIG weld, but I’m so far finding it difficult to find a good hobbyist class in Southern California.

A few years ago I had an idea to make developing web easter eggs easier while sitting in the audience of a conference talk. I coded it and submitted it to Hacker News before the talk was over…and it made the home page!

https://mikeflynn.github.io/egg.js/

Egg.js is still the most popular public project on my GitHub page.

Here's a better link directly to the project on GitHub: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core#readme

If you aren't already working with a therapist, I would encourage you to do so. I think it would really help, but either way I hope you find what you're looking for.

My team and I use Docker Desktop and I don't think anyone signs in. We just use it to install the docker cli tools on the Mac.

We're a small dev team, but it seems like nothing is changing at all for those of us who don't sign in to Docker.

I could (and almost did) write nearly this exact comment myself, right down to turning 18 in mid 1999 and getting the same graduation present!

Windows 2000 is still the only version of Windows I truly enjoyed using. Just seeing the screenshots brought me back to using my beige tower in my dorm room with Winamp, Half Life, and Napster shortcuts on my desktop.

Was their only evidence the screenshot they included? It’s seems more likely that Google could have been looking for phrases like “Let’s look at it” rather than the term “Zoom”.

It’s entirely lifted/sourced in the movie. They read the last part verbatim in the movie in the scene with the FBI agents in the car.

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No Starch Press prints a solid and deep Metasploit guide: https://nostarch.com/metasploit

As with lots of technology books, it's a little out of date but you can certainly get a handle on how to use Metasploit with it.

We have used Clojure in our data processing and API code for five years now at Studio71, and it's been a huge success for us. We have much smaller dev teams than our competitors so Clojure has helped us keep pace with a smaller code base and fast data processing, but it has been a challenge to hire new developers when we need one, but with patience it has always worked out.